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leather, and the legs buttoning tight from the knee to 

 below the ankle, to avoid the need of leggings ; a khaki- 

 coloured army shirt, and a sun helmet, which T wore in 

 deference to local advice, instead of my beloved and 

 far more convenient slouch hat. My rifles were an 

 army Springfield, 80-calibre, stocked and sighted to suit 

 myself ; a Winchester -405 ; and a double-barrelled 

 •500- -450 Holland, a beautiful weapon presented to 

 me by some English friends.^ 



^ Mr. E. N. Buxton took the lead in the matter when he heard 

 that I intended making a trip after big game in Africa. I 

 received the rifle at the White House, while I was President. 

 Inside the case was the following list of donors : 



LIST OF ZOOLOGISTS AND SPORTSMEN WHO ARE 



DONORS OF A DOUBLE ELEPHANT RIFLE TO 



THE HON. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, 



PRESIDENT U.S.A. 



IN RECOGNITION OF HIS SERVICES ON BEHALF OF THE PRESERVATION 



OF SPECIES I?V MEANS OF NATIONAL PARKS AND FOREST 



RESERVES, AND BY OTHER MEANS 



E. N. Buxton, Esq. 



Rt. Hon. Lord Avebury, D.C.L. (" The Pleasures of Life," etc.) 



Major-General Sir F. Reginald Wingate, K.C.B. (Governor- 

 General of the Soudan.) 



Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 



Hon. N. C. Rothschild. 



The Earl of Lonsdale. (Master of Hounds.) 



Sir R. G. Harvey, Bart, 



The Right Hon. Lord Curzon of Kedleston, G.C.S.L, G.C.I.E. 



St. George Ltttledale, Esq. 



Dr. p. Chalmers Mitchell, F.R.S., F.Z.S. (Secretary of the 

 Zoological Society.) 



C. E. Green, Esq. (Master of Essex Hounds.) 



F. C. Selous, Esq. (" A Hunter's Wanderings," etc.) 

 Count Blijcher. 



Lieut.-Colonel C. Delme Radcliffe, C.M.G., M.V.O. 

 Maurice Egerton, Esq. 

 Lord Desborough, C.V.O. 

 Cafi'ain M, McNeill, 



